Exhibitions

Idling Garden

Nobuaki Takekawa 15 May - 24 Jul 2021 Shanghai Ota Fine Arts Shanghai is delighted to present 'idling garden', Nobuaki Takekawa's (b.1977, Japan) second solo exhibition in China. Takekawa's cat Olympics themed solo exhibition at Ota Fine Arts Shanghai in 2017 remains fresh and memorable in audiences' minds. This new exhibition aims to demonstrate the depth and breadth of... Read more

Hiraki Sawa and SHINCHIKA

Hiraki Sawa, SHINCHIKA (Rinshiro Fujiki, Yosuke Fujino, Tsuyoshi Hisakado, Toki Katsumura, Shimpei Yoshikawa) 13 Mar - 30 Apr 2021 Shanghai Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present a duo exhibition of artist Hiraki Sawa and creative group SHINCHIKA. SHINCHIKA is a collective founded in 2002 by Tsuyoshi Hisakado, Yosuke Fujino, Rinshiro Fujiki, Shimpei Yoshikawa and Toki Katsumura from the Kyoto City University of Arts. Their name was inspired by the... Read more

Works on Paper

Maria Farrar, Masanori Handa, Tsuyoshi Hisakado, Tang Dixin 23 Jan - 6 Mar 2021 Shanghai Ota Fine Arts Shanghai is delighted to present 'Works on Paper', an exhibition where paper is used as a common medium among four artists including Maria Farrar, Masanori Handa, Tsuyoshi Hisakado and Tang Dixin. Maria Farrar 's (b.1988) pastel drawings are imbued with bright and varied colors. The Covid-19 pandemic... Read more

Spring

Maria Farrar 11 Nov 2020 - 31 Jan 2021 Shanghai Ota Fine Arts Shanghai is delighted to present Spring, a solo exhibition by the London-based painter Maria Farrar featuring 11 new paintings. It will be Farrar's third exhibition with the gallery, and her first in Shanghai. Since completing her Master's degree in 2017, Farrar has received a reputation for her... Read more

Yayoi Kusama: Recent Paintings

Yayoi Kusama 6 Sep - 24 Oct 2020 Shanghai Ota Fine Arts Shanghai is delighted to present YAYOI KUSAMA: RECENT PAINTINGS, a solo exhibition by Yayoi Kusama featuring 15 monochrome paintings from her My Eternal Soul series and a cloud-based sculpture installation consisting pieces of mirror-finished stainless steel three-dimensional pieces. In 2019, Kusama began working on a group of... Read more

When many pass one way…

Akira the Hustler, Chen Wei, Jong YuGyong and ¥ouada 20 Jun - 22 Aug 2020 Shanghai Ota Fine Arts Shanghai is delighted to present 'When many pass one way...' a group exhibition featuring bold and dynamic artists from China and Japan. The title of this exhibition is referenced from Chinese writer, Lu Xun's famous novel entitled 'My Old Home', where he asserted 'for actually the earth... Read more

Private Viewing Room

Chen Wei, Masanori Handa, Tsuyoshi Hisakado, Tomoko Kashiki, Yayoi Kusama, Hiraki Sawa, Nobuaki Takekawa 11 Apr - 6 Jun 2020 Shanghai Due to the novel Coronavirus (nCoV) situation, Ota Fine Arts Shanghai's private viewing room will feature works by Chen Wei, Masanori Handa, Tsuyoshi Hisakado, Tomoko Kashiki, Yayoi Kusama, Hiraki Sawa and Nobuaki Takekawa in a private viewing room style. To request a list of works or make an appointment, kindly... Read more

Wanderers

Cheng Ran, Takao Minami and Hiraki Sawa 11 Jan - 28 Mar 2020 Shanghai Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present 'Wanderers', a group exhibition that features Chinese artist, Cheng Ran (born 1981), and Japanese artists, Takao Minami (born 1976) and Hiraki Sawa (born 1977). As avid explorers, these artists have embarked on excursions in travel that are made without agendas. Drawing on a... Read more

Tomoko Kashiki | Stories Told Tomorrow

Tomoko Kashiki 7 Nov 2019 - 4 Jan 2020 Shanghai Ota Fine Arts Shanghai is delighted to present 'Stories Told Tomorrow', a solo exhibition by Japanese artist, Tomoko Kashiki (Kyoto, 1982). The exhibition marks Kashiki's first solo presentation in China, where she will showcase 8 new paintings and sketched drawings. Tomoko Kashiki's paintings pulsate between reality and imagination, confronting the... Read more

Greasy Spoon: Made by Martin Goya Business

Bai Taotao, Chai Chai, Chen Gaojie, ChillChill, Da Mian, Nathan Zhou, Nerve CLUB (Zhu Jinkun, Wang Zhangyipeng, Pan Yiliang, He Jiaxuan, Fan Wendi), PAPAPEPIA, TOP30, Wu Junyong, ¥ouada, Yu Hang, Zhang Wenxin, Zhao Rundong, Zheng Tianming, Zhou Yilun 18 Sep - 26 Oct 2019 Shanghai Ota Fine Arts Shanghai is proud to present the group exhibition 'Greasy Spoon', curated by Martin Goya Business (MGB). MGB was founded as an artist collective by video artist, Cheng Ran in 2017. Through collaborations with different artists, the collective is committed to breaking through existing modes of art presentations... Read more

Desert Garden

Akira the Hustler, Etsu Egami, Masanori Handa, Jong YuGyong, 17 Aug - 12 Sep 2019 Shanghai Ota Fine Arts Shanghai is delighted to present 'Desert Garden', a group exhibition featuring eight artists from China, Japan, Korea and Singapore. Through the diversity of works presented, the exhibition hopes to create a new landscape, a possible horizon, and a place of beauty and imagination. ¥ouada's (b.1987) whimsical cactus-shaped... Read more

Fuzz

Tsuyoshi Hisakado 15 Jun - 10 Aug 2019 Shanghai Ota Fine Arts Shanghai is delighted to present 'Fuzz', a solo exhibition by Japanese artist, Tsuyoshi Hisakado (Kyoto, 1981). Hisakado will present his large-scale installation of the same name alongside his 'Crossfades' series of works on paper. Tsuyoshi Hisakado is inspired to discover the uniqueness, beauty and the enduring effects... Read more

Umeda + Sawa

Tetsuya Umeda, Hiraki Sawa 13 Apr - 1 Jun 2019 Shanghai Ota Fine Arts Shanghai is delighted to present a duo exhibition featuring works by Japanese artists, Tetsuya Umeda (b.1980) and Hiraki Sawa (b.1977). From capturing environments, architectural spaces, sound, light and interactive human behaviour, Tetsuya Umeda's practice covers an extensive range. He remodels and creates on-site installations from everyday objects,... Read more

Yayoi Kusama: Prints

Yayoi Kusama 25 Jan - 30 Mar 2019 Shanghai Ota Fine Arts Shanghai is delighted to present 'Yayoi Kusama: Prints', a solo exhibition by Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama (born 1929, Japan). The exhibition features a set of colored woodblock prints, early mixed media works and 30 recent prints made between 2011 and 2012. These prints were based on small... Read more

Yayoi Kusama | THE LONGING FOR MY LOVE ALL BEGAN FROM MY HEART

Yayoi Kusama 7 Nov 2018 - 20 Jan 2019 Shanghai Ota Fine Arts Shanghai is delighted to present 'THE LONGING FOR MY LOVE ALL BEGAN FROM MY HEART', a solo exhibition by Yayoi Kusama featuring 34 paintings from her 'My Eternal Soul' series, a peep-in Infinity Mirror Room and several soft sculptures. As an internationally-acclaimed artist, Kusama's practice remains vigorous,... Read more

Ay Tjoe Christine | The Black Side

Ay Tjoe Christine 29 Sep - 31 Oct 2018 Shanghai Ota Fine Arts Shanghai is delighted to present 'The Black Side' a solo exhibition by Ay Tjoe Christine, one of Southeast Asia's most prominent female painters. For this exhibition, Ay Tjoe presents two new paintings together with four other paintings from her recent retrospective exhibition held at the 21st Century... Read more

Cheng Ran | The Lament: Mountain Ghost

Cheng Ran 18 Aug - 23 Sep 2018 Shanghai Ota Fine Arts Shanghai is delighted to present 'The Lament: Mountain Ghost', a solo exhibition by Chinese artist Cheng Ran. The exhibition presents Cheng's latest video work series of the same name and several mixed-media installations, creating an art experience that shuttles across time. Cheng, who currently resides in Hangzhou,... Read more

Guo-Liang Tan and Zang Kunkun | Ethereal Machines

Guo-Liang Tan and Zang Kunkun 7 Jul - 12 Aug 2018 Shanghai Mai 36 Galerie and Ota Fine Arts Shanghai are delighted to present 'Ethereal Machines', a dual exhibition that brings together Chinese artist Zang Kunkun and Singapore artist Guo-Liang Tan. Strikingly different at first glance, Zang and Tan share more conceptual similarities that are awaiting to be discovered by its viewers,... Read more

Liao Jiekai and Saskia Olde Wolbers | Telling Tales

Liao Jiekai and Saskia Olde Wolbers 12 May - 1 Jul 2018 Shanghai Ota Fine Arts Shanghai is delighted to present 'Telling Tales', the duo presentation of Singapore artist, Liao Jiekai, and Dutch artist, Saskia Olde Wolbers. Three video works, 'Yes, These Eyes are the Windows' (2015) by Saskia Olde Wolbers will be shown alongside 'Bukit Orang Salah' (2013) and 'Silent Light' (2015)... Read more

Tsuyoshi Hisakado | Gale

Tsuyoshi Hisakado 24 Mar - 6 May 2018 Shanghai Ota Fine Arts Shanghai is delighted to present 'Gale', a solo exhibition by Japanese artist, Tsuyoshi Hisakado. Hisakado first presented 'Gale' at the Culture City of East Asia 2017 Kyoto 'Asia Corridor Contemporary Art Exhibition.' The work was site-specific and was presented with the unique structural hoardings in the corner... Read more

Gallery Collection

Ay Tjoe Christine, Chen Wei, Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Yayoi Kusama, Dennis Oppenheim, Wang Yahui, Saskia Olde Wolbers 20 Jan - 18 Mar 2018 Shanghai Ota Fine Arts Shanghai is delighted to present Gallery Collection, a group exhibition featuring eight artists from across the globe: China, Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia, The Netherlands and U.S.A. These artists are of diverse backgrounds working in a variety of mediums - painting, photography, video and sculpture. Each of them have... Read more